Sr. Product Manager

Role Description

Istari is a platform for sharing and working on engineering data in highly regulated, no-fail industries — where a mistake can cost a mission, an aircraft, or a life. No single team builds a fighter: the airframe comes from a prime, the engine from one supplier, the radar from another, and the teams are separated by geography, classification level, corporate boundaries, and an ecosystem of software tools. Istari keeps their models, simulations, and test results connected so they can move fast and not break things.

We’re hiring a Senior Product Manager to own a significant piece of that platform end to end. You’ll take a set of features that each solve a real problem and turn them into a product that hangs together — one coherent story for the customer, one coherent roadmap for the team.

This is a role for someone ambitious who wants real ownership. You’ll get a problem space, direct access to customers, and a strong engineering team. From there, we expect you to figure out what matters:

• Talk to users, find the shape of the problem, decide what to build and in what order, and carry it through to shipped.
• Work directly with our Head of Product on strategy — your job is to bring a clear point of view to that conversation, not to wait for one.

The domain is technical and we like it that way. Our users are systems engineers building spacecraft, hypersonic vehicles, and submarines. A single customer problem might span:

• Extracting proprietary CAD files into vendor-neutral formats.
• Sharing data across air-gapped environments.
• Automatically re-checking mission requirements on every revision.

This means our product touches engineering tools, SDKs, APIs, workflows, and secure infrastructure. You don’t need to be able to administer a Kubernetes cluster, but a conversation about one shouldn’t scare you — you need enough technical depth that engineers trust your judgment and customers trust your answers.

You don’t need to have run a business or owned a massive roadmap. You do need to be comfortable in a room with senior stakeholders — a customer’s chief engineer, a program executive, our leadership team — and able to hold your own.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of product management experience at a company known for shipping excellent product at speed — think Stripe, Ramp, Datadog, or an equivalent high-caliber environment.
• A track record of taking complicated, ambiguous features from idea to shipped with minimal direction.
• Comfort in technical domains.
• Strong customer instincts.
• Directness.
• Speed and ownership.

Requirements

• Experience as the PM for a CLI-based tool, SDK, or other developer-facing product (preferred, not required).
• Experience as the PM for a desktop or client application.
• Deep technical experience with cloud or security infrastructure.
• Background in aerospace, defense, digital engineering, or other regulated domains.
• Must be a US citizen living within the United States.

Benefits

• Work directly with the executives and engineers building the company.
• See your work reach real programs and real missions quickly.
• Room to shape both the product and the product function itself.
• Celebrate individual contributions and give feedback early and often.
• Outcomes-driven environment with respect for each person’s expertise and wellbeing.

Company Description

We’ve built a team of what we call Wizards — people who bring depth in their domain and range across others, who are collaborative without being deferential, and who genuinely care about what we’re building.

Focus is rewarded. Finish is remembered.

Facts are friendly. Even when they are not fun.

Fellowship is fundamental. Make others successful.